Последние издания книг Джона Хоукса

Добро пожаловать в одну из самых долгих ночей в мировой литературе. Время - апрель 1945 года, над третью уже почти полностью оккупированной союзниками Германии надзирает единственный американец на мотоцикле, а в городке Шпицене-на-Дайне зреет заговор по возрождению нации… Что это будет за нация, удастся ли заговорщикам взять власть в свои руки? И, что немаловажно,…

Whistlejacket

Маленький шедевр современной литературы - роман Джона Хоукса "Лягух" - впервые на русском языке.

Незауряден тот, кто приютил лягушку! Да-да, у главного героя изысканной и филигранной сказки выдающегося американского постмодерниста XX века Джона Хоукса в животе поселилась лягушка по имени Арман - не метафора, не аллегория и не символ. Совершенно реальное и живое земноводное, обладающее к тому же ненасытным любопытством, прескверным характером и незаурядным сексуальным аппетитом.

Джона Хоукса называли "писателем для писателей", а Джон Барт считал его "самой яркой - и самой темной - звездой американской литературы XX века". "Ирландский прищур" - сказка братьев Гримм, рассказанная Джойсом, где главная героиня, ирландская сиротка Дервла О'Шэннон, не всегда та, кем кажется на первый взгляд. Для того чтобы разглядеть правду в мире фантазий и…

The narrator of this wild, highly inventive tale is the orphan Dervla O'Shannon, dubbed "Thistle" because she is "skinny and prickly and unwanted". Reared at Saint Martha's Home for Foundling Girls until the age of puberty, her world is circumscribed by scrubbing floors, washing up the kitchen, and competing with thirty others for the attention of the Foundling Mother. Forced to pay entertainment calls on some of Ireland's national heroes sequestered at Saint Clement's home for Old Soldiers, Dervla is assigned to Corporal Stack, a wry malcontent, veteran of the First World War and old enough to be Dervla's grandfather. There follows an improbable and uproarious courtship between the two, their escape from their respective institutions, Dervla's endless stream of letters to the Foundling Mother, "true in sentiment but in every other way as false as a cat". Corporal Stack suffers a shocking injury, and the pair are taken in captivity to Great Manor, an Anglo-Irish estate inhabited only by a "young mistress" (a girl very like Dervla herself), her drunken brother, and a host of desolate babies. In a wonderfully unpredictable ending, the ever optimistic Dervla at last discovers the love and satisfaction she has been seeking throughout her adventures.

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Travesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sportscar is speeding through the night, hearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the “privileged man” justifies, in sustained monologue, his firm persuasion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. “What I have in mind is an ‘accident’ so perfectly contrived that it will he unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.”


This is the final work in a triad of novels concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd. The Blood Oranges (1971) is the acting out of a lyric dream; Death, Sleep & The Traveler (1974) a descent into the depths of psychic darkness to the edge of death; and Travesty (1976) an icily comic portrait of the poet as suicide and murderer. It is one of the most cruelly and brilliantly ironic works to be found in contemporary literature.

.. there is 110 doubt that lie is one of the very best living American writers, and Travesty one of his most remarkable fictions.”
— Tony Tanner, The New York Times

".. one of the few writers for whom every new work is a major literary event. Travesty is not to be missed."
— John V. Knapp, Chicago Sun-Times

Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise.
The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim. Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. “It is an exceptionally concise and beautiful work,” writes the novelist-critic Jonathan Baumbach, “delicate, erotic, dreamlike—in all, a luminous novel by the richest prose stylist in American letters since Faulkner.”

"Rich, evocative, highly original piece of fiction. It gilds contemporary American literature with real, not synthetic, gold."—Anthony Burgess

"Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed novel The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal multisexualist. Likening himself to a white bull on Love's tapestry, he pursues his romantic vision in a primitive Mediterranean landscape. There two couples—Cyril and Fiona, Hugh and Catherine—mingle their loves in an "lllyria" that brings to mind the equally timeless countryside of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Yet no synopsis or comparison can convey the novel's lyric comedy or, indeed, its sinister power—sinister because of the strength of will Cyril exerts over his wife, his mistress, his wife's reluctant lover; lyric, since he is also a “sex-singer" in the land where music is the food of love.